NBA governors should adjust, set up one-time tiebreaker

Credit to veteran NBA scribe Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel for thinking more deeply into the inequality of an unbalanced post-lockout schedule than the NBA’s Board of Governors.

The Governors this week voted to amend the playoff tie-breaking procedures to eliminate the tiebreaker involving winning percentage within the division. They reasoned that because teams aren’t playing an equal number of division games, it wasn’t fair.

That’s good thinking.

What Winderman suggests is better thinking: A one-time strength-of-schedule tiebreaker beyond the primary tiebreaker for head-to-head competition, owing to the fact the 66-game schedule is so out of balance.